Paul DePodesta Quotes

I was just taught, the team goes how the point guard goes.

A group of players go out and win a game in a style that gets the best out of them. That's the key to management.

How do you win? By getting average players to play good and good players to play great. That's how you win.

It's fun leading this offense. I don't think we've hit our peak.

I think all you can worry is that you make the team the very best they can be.

There's always room for quality players in a team. The trick as a manager is to figure out how to bring the best out of your team.

You have to have great players and great coaches working with you.

The manager picks the team and the team has got to go out and do its best.

It's hard to do, but you've got to be able to get your team going and prepare each week and go out and play your best and hopefully it shows in the game.

The manager wants to show his tactics, and if I do them perfectly, he'll pick me.

My job is to improve the performance of the team game by game.

Getting the best out of your best players gets the best out of the team.

Any football club that is any good is down to the manager more than anything else.

When you get into the game, you're trying to win games. So you want your best players out there.

It's not enough to buy good players, one has to develop a team.

In order to improve our side, we need players who can make the difference.

It's all about the qualities of the players. The better the players, the easier it is for the manager.

When the key players in your team perform well, the team does well, too.

On the pitch, I conduct and organise. I'm loud.

The key is having great players. But there are a lot of teams that have All-Stars and haven't been able to put it together.

People say, 'Is broadcasting the same as coaching?' I say, 'Hell, no.' Coaching, you win and lose. Broadcasting, you don't win and lose. Coaching was a lot bigger than broadcasting.

My idea of managing is giving the ball to Tom Seaver and sitting down and watching him work.

I'd like to think that every captain around the world has a vision of how they want their teams to play and most of them are allowed to take their teams forward in their own way.

No coach has ever won a game by what he knows; it's what his players know that counts.

We've got to play better basketball.